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Chapter 295 Bruno is equal to four world-class forwards

Bruno just waved his arms and ran back.

His actions even affected the Udinese players on the field. When Bruno ran past Immobile, he patted his new teammate on the shoulder.

Immobile gave Bruno a thumbs up, indicating that he had done a good job just now.

Badu waited for Bruno on his way back and high-fived him.

Maguire touched Bruno's head and said to him: "Well done, Bruno!"

"This Udinese is already invincible, even if the opponent is Arsenal!" The commentator became excited again.

He was right, today's Udinese team is really unbeatable, even though they themselves had doubts before going on the field.

The three minutes of injury time passed in the blink of an eye, and Arsenal never scored again. In the last minute, Bruno simply led the team to pass the ball back and forth in his own half.

The Arsenal players also knew that there was no hope of winning and had no interest in rushing forward to steal the ball.

When the referee blew the full-time whistle, a huge burst of boos erupted at the Emirates Stadium.

The home team fans can only express their dissatisfaction in this way.

Udinese's substitute players ignored the boos from the home team fans and swarmed forward, hugging their teammates on the field to celebrate their victory!

The TV camera focused on Bruno in the crowd again, and the meaning was obvious.

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After defeating the Premier League giant Arsenal 3:1 in an away game, Udinese is almost on the threshold of advancing to the quarterfinals.

This greatly boosted Udinese's confidence and morale. After returning to Italy, they ushered in three consecutive league victories.

On the afternoon of February 2st, Udinese visited the Ferraris Stadium and defeated Genoa with a score of 21:26 in the 3th round of Serie A. Bruno shot and passed in the game, helping Udinese equalize twice after falling behind twice, and beat Genoa at the last moment of the game.

In the other two focus games of this round, Juventus was upset and tied by Bologna in the away game. The two sides ended in a goalless draw in the 90-minute game.

The Bianconeri also ended their crazy fifteen-game winning streak.

Another game was between Naples and AC Milan, and the two teams ended up tied 1:1.

As a result, after 26 league rounds, Udinese continues to lead the standings with 67 points, 9 points ahead of Juventus. Napoli, on the other hand, is 13 points behind their Udinese partner and has actually been eliminated from the title race early.

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After a week's rest, Udinese ushered in the last game of February on the afternoon of February 2, facing the vice-president Verona at the Friuli Stadium.

In this duel between the captain and deputy squad leader, Udinese won the game with a score of 2:0 without any blood.

In the 31st minute of the first half, Bruno launched an attack. Di Natale assisted Badu with a long shot and Udinese led 1:0.

In the 56th minute of the second half, Udinese scored another victory. Bruno drove the ball straight into the middle, and finally found Taylor through the ball. The French forward easily sent the ball into Verona's goal.

After defeating Verona, Udinese has unknowingly won five consecutive league victories and reached 70 points.

However, they were not able to expand their lead in the standings, because after a small setback in the previous round, Juventus defeated Inter Milan with a score of 2:0 in a strong dialogue at home this round, continuing to Chasing Udinese with a gap of 9 points.

Inter Milan, which lost, continues to sink in the standings. The Nerazzurri, who had a perfect start to the season, have unknowingly fallen to sixth place in the standings, 23 points behind Udinese.

Di Natale scored 1 goal in this round, bringing his season tally to 12 goals, rising to third in the scorer list, second only to Bruno and Higuain who are in full form.

This is also the 240th Serie A goal of the Udinese captain's career, only 5 goals behind Totti in front of him.

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On the evening of March 3, local time in Italy, the first game of the 4th round of Serie A was played. Udinese visited the Benito Stepp Stadium to challenge Frosinoni.

The newly promoted team is currently stuck in the relegation zone, and their desire for survival has given them a strong fighting capacity. In order to prepare for the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals four days later, Udinese suffered a fierce battle on the road.

The home team entered the state very early. In the 12th minute, Theofani succeeded in a long shot from outside the penalty area and took the lead.

Udinese suffered another blow in the 15th minute. Brazilian center back Felipe, who was rotated in this game, could not last in the game due to injury, forcing Guidolin to replace him with Danilo.

The 31-year-old Brazilian veteran joined Udinese in the summer of 2002, and then moved to Fiorentina in the summer of 2010.

After moving to many Serie A teams, at the last moment of last summer's transfer window, the veteran signed a free transfer to Udinese at the buzzer.

This season, Felipe didn't play much time. He only played a substitute rotation role at the center back position for Udinese, but he also performed well in the limited playing time. At the beginning of the Champions League knockout rounds, when Udinese was fighting on two fronts, his injury made Udinese's available manpower in defense even more stretched.

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Udinese failed to equalize in the first half, but they finally scored shortly into the second half.

The goal was scored by Bruno, who scored a beautiful free kick for Udinese.

But the tenacious Frosinoni surpassed the score again in the 60th minute of the game. Erto, who was rotating in the game at that time, fouled in the backcourt and gave Frosinoni a well-positioned free kick. In the end, this free kick led to Udinese's second goal of the game.

But then the game fell into Udinese's control.

In the 66th minute, Bruno sent a precise through ball, and Di Natale succeeded in countering offside, equalizing the score for Udinese.

The score was equalized for the second time, and Frosinoni began to lose his composure and began a crazy counterattack. But instead of posing a major threat to Udinese's goal, Udinese successfully counterattacked.

In the 80th minute, Udinese launched a very efficient and quick counterattack. Finally, Bruno fired a lob from the top of the penalty area. The ball went over the head of the attacking Frosinoni goalkeeper Leiria and fell into the door.

3:2, Udinese overtook the score!

This was also the final score of the game. Although Frosinoni, who was unwilling to fail, deployed his troops one after another in the last ten minutes, Udinese took control of the ball and could only watch the game time continue to pass. .

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Four days later, the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals kicked off at the Stadio Friuli.

At the pre-match press conference, visiting team Arsenal head coach Wenger first praised his opponent in a formulaic manner: Udinese played very well in the league, and Mr. Guidolin’s team was amazing; Arsenal in the first round Nadines lost at home, leaving Arsenal in a difficult situation.

However, then, Wenger changed his tone: "However, I have confidence in my team. In the past, we have almost succeeded in coming back three times when we were behind by a big score in the first round, but we will not fall at the end for the fourth time. Front of the line.”

Bruno summed up Wenger's words in one sentence: We at Arsenal are veterans of the Champions League knockout rounds. We will kill you, a rookie in the Champions League!

However, when the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game, cheers broke out in the stands of the Stadio Friuli. Bruno, who was wearing the captain's armband in this game, raised his arms high and led his teammates around the field to cheer and celebrate the victory.

The frustrated Mr. Wenger covered his face with his hands and looked shameless.

The score of this game was faithfully recorded on the team's scoreboard: Udinese 2:0 Arsenal.

The total score in the two rounds is 5:1!

In the first half of the game, Arsenal, who lost 1:3 in the first round, launched an aggressive offensive from the beginning of the game. However, Udinese quickly showed everyone their strong offensive strength. In this game, Bruno, who appeared in a new position again, scored twice, directly defeating Arsenal.

Yes, Guidolin assigned Bruno a new position in this game: right winger!

As a result, Bruno has played almost every position except goalkeeper this season: center back, full back, defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder, and forward!

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Once again being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, Wenger was criticized by all media.

Especially for what he said in December last year, which was once again brought out by the media and criticized: "I don't understand why the fans should be disappointed. We already have Giroud, and besides him, we also have Volko." Te, a world-class striker, Alexis Sanchez, a world-class striker, and Danny Welbeck, who is also a world-class striker."

0:2败走弗留利球场是意料之中的结局，阿森纳狂射20脚门倒是更显余勇可贾，可是仅仅的3次射正相比乌迪内斯的17射8正还是显得太过稚嫩。

To put it bluntly, the ability to seize opportunities is indeed poor, and there is indeed a lack of a world-class forward.

It was already early March and Arsenal were eliminated from all fronts. Repeated attacks were regarded as a key factor. Even though they created as many as 3 shooting opportunities against Udinese, they failed to score even one. No goals were scored.

Even though Wenger meant to encourage his disciples in the context of the time, he still had to face the dilemma of having a "swollen face".

What's more, the best example of the so-called "world-class forward" was in the opponent's formation, and he scored a goal that "non-world-class forwards" could not score in this game.

That was in the 65th minute of the game. Cancelo made a pass from the right, and Bruno, who was unguarded, shot acrobaticly from 12 yards. The ball hit the right post and entered the net, changing the score to 2:0.

This is Bruno's 12th Champions League goal this season, bringing his total goals this season to 51!

Since entering 2016, Arsenal has begun to gradually withdraw from the competition for championships in various competitions, and the Gunners' inherent weakness in forwards is naturally a major reason for the team's decline.

Looking at the data, Walcott + Giroud + Welbeck + Sanchez, the four world-class forwards described by Wenger, have only scored 2016 goals for Arsenal since 13, while Bruno also scored for Udinese in 2016. Scored 13 goals.

Arsenal's four top forwards are exactly equal to one Bruno.

(End of this chapter)